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C:\Users\Peter\Desktop\Bulletin Master for Peter 10.Pmd VOL. XLVII NO. 17 DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY APRIL 28, 2019 HELP NEEDED CATHOLIC KORNER CATHOLIC CHARITIES - ETHICAL TRADE SALE Last week we learned that we have been calling GOSEPL COMMENTARY our priests Father since the time of the Apostles! “Blessed are those who have not seen and believed.” Catholic Charities will be hosting an Ethical Trade Sale here at St. Francis de Sales Cathedral after the Saturday 4pm, Sunday 7am, This week we discuss the Divine Mercy Devotion. The message John tells us that the disciples who and devotion to Jesus as The Divine Mercy is based on the writings abandoned Jesus when He was 9am, and 11am Masses the weekend of May 18th and 19th. Your purchase of these items employs artisans and farmers in of Saint Faustina Kowalska, an uneducated Polish nun who, in arrested and taken to the cross [John obedience to her spiritual director, wrote a diary of about 600 pages was one of them] were still locked in a marginalized communities around the world! (Please pay with cash or check) We will need help with set up and sales after each recording the revelations she received about God’s mercy. room a week after they had seen Him The message of mercy is that God loves us — all of us —no risen from the dead and had appeared Mass. If you can help after the Mass you attend, please contact Cathy in the rectory office at 876-6904. matter how great our sins. He wants us to recognize that His mercy to them in that same room. Jesus had is greater than our sins, so that we will call upon Him with trust, good reason to be disappointed with receive His mercy, and let it flow through us to others. It’s not them. But He says to them, “Peace be with you!” He knew it was enough for us to hang The Divine Mercy image in our homes, difficult for them to believe, even though they had seen. And He EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS Are you looking for an awesome ministry opportunity? Heritage pray the Chaplet every day at three o’clock, and receive Holy knew how difficult it would be for us who had not seen, to believe. Communion on the first Sunday after Easter. We also have to show That is why, at our Baptism, our parents, or we ourselves if we are Manor needs you! It takes about 30 minutes each Sunday and begins at 10:15am. You will be giving Catholic residents the Body mercy to our neighbors. Putting mercy into action is not an option old enough, promise that our faith will constantly grow stronger in of the Divine Mercy Devotion; it’s a requirement! Our Lord strongly our hearts and we are challenged to bring that faith unstained into of Christ. They also need assistance on Wednesdays, Mass is celebrated at 10:00am, volunteers arrive a little earlier to determine speaks about this to Saint Faustina: I demand from you deeds of heaven. We renewed our Baptismal Promises on Easter Sunday. mercy which are to arise out of love for me. You are to show mercy What have we done to make our faith grow stronger in our hearts? hall scheduling. If you are interested, please contact Cathy at the church office – 985-876-6904. to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK OF APR 29 – MAY 5 What are we doing? What will we do in the future? Are we being from this or try to excuse yourself from it (Diary, 742). Monday - Acts 4:23-31; Jn 3:1-8 good stewards to bring that faith unstained into heaven? Tuesday - Acts 4:32-37; Jn 3:7b-15 THE CHAPLET OF DIVINE MERCY Wednesday - Acts 5:17-26; Jn 3:16-21 STEWARDSHIP REPORT FOOD FOR THE SPIRIT – WE NEED YOU! only takes about 5 minutes to pray – all you do is: Thursday - Acts 5:27-33; Jn 3:31-36 This ministry delivers meals to homebound of our parish. Sunday – April 21 1. Begin with the Sign of the Cross, pray Friday - 1 Cor 15:1-8; Jn 14:6-14 Envelopes (288)…………........................ $11,891.00 Distribution is scheduled for the second Saturday of each month Saturday - Acts 6:1-7; Jn 6:16-21 (Next date is May 11th). A meal plan is emailed to all volunteers 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary and Loose …………………........................…. $ 3,635.00 The Apostles Creed. Sunday - Acts 5:27-32; Rv 5:11-14; Jn 21:1-19 Total ………………….........................….. $15,526.00 prior to the upcoming weekend and participants volunteer to cook Third Sunday of Easter one of various dishes, or bring bread, dessert, etc. The group meets 2. Then on the Our Father Beads pray the and prepares the go-plates, adding various prayer cards or small following: Eternal Father, I offer You the gifts to deliver along with the meals in a nicely decorated bag! Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your AFTERTHOUGHTS Each volunteer then takes 2 or 3 meals to deliver to the various dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus PARISH NEWS homes of those who are homebound or in need of food. Can you Christ, in atonement for our sins and You believe in the Christ you have never seen. How well have spare a couple of hours each month? Please consider helping – those of the whole world. we are in need of volunteers, especially to help deliver the food. you learned to love and serve the images of Christ – the women, BAPTISM - St. Francis welcomes our newest members, 3. On the 10 Hail Mary Beads pray the men & children – you see each day? Contact Roxane Haydel at 985-381-3573 or Leo Beyer and Miles Bui. [email protected]. following: For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the FIRST COMMUNION – Congratulations to Emelina Beyer whole world. for receiving the Sacrament of First Communion! (Repeat step 2 and 3 for all five decades). 4. Conclude with (three times): SECOND COLLECTION THIS WEEKEND Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy This weekend we will have a second collection – Catholic Home on us and on the whole world. PRAY FOR: Mona Escobar, Ray Duthu, Beryl Toups Odom, Missions Appeal. The Catholic Home Missions Appeal helps Jesus said later to Sister Faustina: Linda Lee, J.A. Foret, Jason Chaisson, Christina Sparks, Loraine dioceses overcome obstacles of geography, poverty, and Stone, Edrith Boudreaux, Dale Boudreaux, Ursula M. Breaux, limited resources, and fosters solidarity to help others “Say unceasingly this chaplet that I have taught you. Anyone Ray Marcel, Barbara Toups Miller, Ralph Deroche, Cathy Clement, experience the presence of the risen Lord. These funded who says it will receive great Mercy at the hour of death. Priests Susan Laperouse, Jacques Champagne, Melinda Fabre, and for dioceses are located across the United States, including the will recommend it to sinners as the last hope. Even the most all prayer shawl recipients. Please pray for the repose of the Deep South, Appalachia, and the Rocky Mountains, as well as hardened sinner, if he recites this Chaplet even once, will souls of all who have died, especially Brent Bourg. in US territories in the Caribbean and Pacific. Find more receive grace from My Infinite Mercy. I want the whole world information at www.usccb.org/home-missions. EASTER FLOWERS AND PLANTS DONATED IN to know My Infinite Mercy. I want to give unimaginable graces If you have someone to add or remove from the prayer list, please LOVING MEMORY AND THROUGH THE GENEROSITY to those who trust in My Mercy....” call the church office at 985-876-6904 or email OF OUR FRIENDS [email protected]. After 6 weeks the individual will be DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY - APRIL 28, 2019 “....When they say this Chaplet in the presence of the dying, I The Divine Mercy Sunday celebration at St. IN MEMORY OF BY will stand between My Father and the dying person not as the removed from the list, but please call or email to keep them on Carroll, Sr. & Jeanne Lirette Carroll & Pam Dugas the list. Francis de Sales Cathedral will begin at 2:00 just judge but as the Merciful Savior”. P.M. Join in Exposition of the Blessed Charles Boyne Jeanne Wurzlow Herbert Wurzlow Jeanne Wurzlow For more information, visit EWTN’s site where all of this information Sacrament, recitation of the Most Holy Rosary came from: https://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/backgr.htm and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. Confessions Irving T. Schexnayder Anita Schexnayder SANCTUARY LIGHTS James “Manny” Boyne Jeanne Wurzlow Church will be available. The celebration concludes with Find out more next week when we talk about Sacramentals. the Solemn Benediction of the Blessed Jeanne Achee’ & Charles Bourg Jeanne Wurzlow In Loving Memory of Monique Simon LeBlanc Julie Lawton Jeanne Wurzlow Do you have a particular question you want answered? Send in donated by her loving family. Sacrament and the veneration of a first class relic of St. Faustina. Wilfred & Adenise Dugas Carroll & Pam Dugas your questions to [email protected] to have answered here! 1 4 MAY IS THE MONTH OF THE BLESSED MOTHER MASS INTENTIONS YOUTH MINISTRY FUNDRAISER If you would like to have Mass said in honor or in memory of “Since Mary is rightly to be regarded as the way by which we someone please complete the purple form in the vestibule, contact The youth attending Steubenville on the Bayou Youth Conference are led to Christ, the person who encounters Mary cannot the church office at 876-6904, or email [email protected].
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